Engaging Students with Technology

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Podcasting, Oral Recording, Oral Quizzes Podcasting, oral recordings, and oral quizzes – A number of resources on the Internet allow students to post phone calls as audio files or podcasts. Teachers can create a Google Voice account – - that provides a free local phone number associated with the teacher’s phone or voice mailbox. Students can use it to leave recorded homework assignments or test answers.

Mobile Geotagging Mobile Geotagging – This allows students to post photos, videos, audio recordings, or text messages linked to a particular location. For example, students in a biology class might use Flagr to take photos of animals in different locations. The teacher can then create a map showing the different habitats and discuss why each animal lives there. Or history students might use GeoGraffiti to go to various historical sites and record brief descriptions of them; the teacher can then create a map and play back the recordings associated with each location.

Digital Storybooks Digital storybooks – Yodio allows students to use their cell phones to create digital stories anytime, anywhere. For example, a first-grade class on a field trip could create a collaborative digital storybook about animals at the zoo.

Self Organization Self-organization – Using voice-to-text applications like Jott and Dial2Do students can call in reminders to themselves, send s or text messages to groups of people, create posts, create a schedule on a Google calendar, listen to their Google calendar, listen to their , and listen to podcasts and webpages when they are out and about.

Photo Projects Photo projects – Photo-sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket allow students take photos with their cell phones (for example, a math class finding examples of polygons), save a short text message describing each object, and send it all to a private website that the teacher can play back the next day in class

Classroom Response Systems Classroom response systems – Poll Everywhere Wiffiti and TextTheMob enable teachers to do on-the-spot assessments of students’ learning via their cell phones

Information Gathering Information gathering – On field trips, students can send their questions to a free information site like ChaCha and get text-message answers back in minutes

Cyber Safety Discuss with students how to stay safe in the mobile world. Sites like ConnectSafely are helpful. U-tube screener